TY  - BOOK
AU  - Struthers,David M.
TI  - The world in a city: multiethnic radicalism in early twentieth-century Los Angeles
T2  - Working class in American history
SN  - 9780252084256
U1  - 331.88097949409041 ST WO 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
KW  - Labor movement
KW  - California
KW  - Los Angeles
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Radicalism
KW  - Intercultural communication
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes
KW  - HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "A massive population shift transformed Los Angeles in the first decades of the twentieth century. Americans from across the country relocated to the city even as an unprecedented transnational migration brought people from Asia, Europe, and Mexico. Together, these newcomers forged a multiethnic alliance of anarchists, labor unions, and leftists dedicated to challenging capitalism, racism, and often the state. David M. Struthers draws on the anarchist concept of affinity to explore the radicalism of Los Angeles's interracial working class from 1900 to 1930. Uneven economic development created precarious employment and living conditions for laborers. The resulting worker mobility led to coalitions that, inevitably, remained short lived. As Struthers shows, affinity helps us understand how individual cooperative actions shaped and reshaped these alliances. It also reveals social practices of resistance that are often too unstructured or episodic for historians to capture. What emerges is an untold history of Los Angeles and a revolutionary movement that, through myriad successes and failures, produced powerful examples of racial cooperation"--
UR  - https://uowd.box.com/s/pt7ua7snw6ozp2esihutqufazw66gc49
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